The Reece Chipman issue has already taken on a life of its own and there are too many unfounded accounts as to what happened for me to give serious commentary but what we can take from it is this as reported in The Nassau Guardian today; “We campaigned for change, Mr. Prime Minister,’ the Centerville MP also wrote.

We campaigned against a system that was not working for our children and the next generation of Bahamians.  We did not vote for much of the same.  Centerville will continue to fight for change for our people, and Centerville hopes you endeavor to do the same”, indeed the entire Bahamas endeavors for you to do the same Mr. Prime Minister but the people are beginning to have their doubts and are growing weary as the Oban Saga has left a lot on unanswered questions as it is an instance of an issue that can make or break an administration and right now looking in from the outside this administration is set to break.

Going back to Wednesday of last week, 21 March 2018, many had hopes of you, Mr. Prime Minister, would be able to put forth some viable reason as to why you choose to do business with a set of persons that the two former prime ministers sent on their way as they offered this ‘deal’, even the ‘dumb’ one has enough sense or people with sense around him to tell him what to do but yet you chose to proceed while only offering this explanation; “Minnis admits Oban mistakes – Prime minister pledge full review of controversial oil refinery project”- The Nassau Guardian 21 March 2018

Excerpt from this article; “Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis admitted yesterday that his government made a series of mistakes regarding its deal with Oban Energies to build a $5.5 billion oil refinery and storage facility in Eastern Grand Bahama.’ As he sought to temper the controversy surrounding the project, Minnis said his government should have done its due diligence.  But is he also castigated the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) over its ‘hypocrisy’ over the project.

In our haste to boost the economy if Grand Bahama, we made a number of missteps in the Oban Energies project,’ Minnis said during debate on the mid-year budget in the House of Assembly.

‘While our heart was in the right place, these missteps should not have happened.

We must do better, we can and we will do better.”

It is my opinion that there was no need for missteps to be made in the first place for the simple fact , as I have stated before; two former prime ministers turned this project down and I had asked of the current prime minister what does he have up his sleeve to actually make this deal a reality being mindful of the persons that he is doing business with; no ‘fish stories’ with us being so close to Easter.

Last week, and a day or two after the prime minister admitted to his ‘missteps’ and made the pledge to ‘do better’ , as he made the attempt to pull his hand out of the lion’s ass, it was then reported that the two top persons for Oban Energies had been removed its register.

“Oban changes management – Documents show Krieger, Dhunna removed from register” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Documents obtained by The Guardian show that Oban Energies LLC, the company behind the proposed $5.5 billion storage facility in East End, Grand Bahama has changed management, with Oban President Satpal Dhuuna and former Non-Executive Chairman Peter Krieger being removed as mangers last week.

According to documents filed in the state department in Tallahassee, Florida, a new company formed last year is now managing Oban Energies LLC.

Oban Energies Management LLC was appointed manager of the company on March 12, 2018 at 12.41 p.m.

The document is date March 9, 2018 and signed by Krieger.”

So now we have a document signed on behalf of Dhunna by Krieger all on behalf of someone else?!

No one is sad to see them leave; what is a non-executive chairman anyway, but there are too many questions that will arise as we had only just found out who Krieger was signing on behalf of when he penned Dhunna on the Heads of Agreement signed about a month ago.

Indeed, many missteps were made and we wait to see where we are going because at this point most of us do not know where we are at with this deal, especially with these two men being ‘removed’.  There is definitely a lack of communication from a prime minister that promised to be open with the people whom he said he was a servant to and as Reese Chipman so rightfully put it, “We campaigned for change”.

Of course, there is still time for change but to continue on this present course will not bring about that necessary change.

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